Many employees will resist change. How they
resist and the choices they make can influence the success of your change project, the
impact on productivity and employee morale, and ultimately employee turnover.

In some cases choices your employees make
may have negative outcomes. These choices may be bad for you and for them. Other choices
they make will benefit them and enhance their ability to thrive in a changing
organization.

The Survival Guide to Change presents the
ADKAR model, a framework to help employeesthrough the change process. The
excerpt provided below presents choices that employees make about change, organized first
by choices that typically have a negative outcome, and then by choices that typically have
a positive outcome. The Employees Survival Guide to Change then introduces the ADKAR model
as a way to influence these choices and consequences. The text is written in second person
and with the intended audience the employees undergoing change.

This tutorial is the first in a series that
presents key concepts from this new change management book that is based on research with
more than 700 organizations world-wide.